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BURDEN OF ARMAMENTS. THE P. & O. COMPANY.

Japan's Army too Large for its Seventy-first General Meeting.

Population?

The seventy first ordinary general Every one outside of Japan muoting of the Peninsular and seeme to boliere the Mikado's Oriental Bioma Navigation Com- Empire is inaintaining no armany was hold on December “ist). ment altogether too large for it the offices, Leadenhg-street, EC. Sir Thomas Sutherland, population and economic re- sources. Yet an editorial writer G.O.M.G., LL.D. (chairman of the iu tho." Heiji Zasei" (Journal of company), prosidad. Military Affairs, Tokyo) - plonde that the truth is exnelly the contrary, and ho tries to verify this statement with figures and statistics. According to this

The Chairman's Speech. The Chairman quid the year had,

been a extremely anxious one in any ways, but the rosult was fairly satisfactory. They paid the sta

dividend and bonus as for a con-

writer the proportion of Japan's Army to her population is much aiderable number of years; they smaller than obtains in the carried to dépréciation"· reserve, European countries generally ro- £659,842 and they carried" forward cognized as grant Powers.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH THURSDAY JANUARY 4 1912

SMOKING

TOBACCOS

"Largo Selection of Leading Brands in Stock.

were dispatched in ballast. The in- mediate loss in August was £25,000, and it gyery mechanic and labourar in confection with the strike hnd btcwed an advanço in, wagta, it was obvious that shipowners myse look forward to a rise in expendi ture of a mean order. He would raw even more particular attention to the fact that this strike represent ad a new departure. For the inst

£07,015. --- Passenger traffic receipts With the solitary exception of the United States, Japan has in

amounted to, £1,204,421; an incrense deed the smallest standing Armiy of £47,000. It was the largest as compared with hor population, amount ever earned under this hendi. Her standing Army at present Some benefit had been derived fram numbers 230,000 officers and man the Coronation, the company having As har population is estimated al 51,000,000 there are 4.51. soldiers carried to and from this country, to every thousand of population. some of the Indian Princes who at The United States has only tended the ceremony. The freigh. 1.80 sokliers to every 1,000 account amounted to $1,721,800 population. In England the ratio which was a fow thousand pounds is 8.44 1,000; Germany 11.20 to 1,000; in Russia 11.08 to 1,000; short of the previous your. The in Francs 15.13 to 1,000. purchase of the Blue Anchor Line had turned out most favourably. La that line only one class of passengers "The annual sum which Japan was carried, via the Cape to Australdur had comLined in a surt expands for her Army is not in. The last vessel dispatched in uf federation, and at one moment large in comparison with that that service took over 1,000 emigrant there wore 30,000 men idlo in the expended by other Powers. The passengers.. Emigration to Austra Fort of London. The shipowauts appropriation for the Japanese ha had suddenly increased, and was were perfectly helpless, and the hip- Army amounts to 17.6 per cent. now very pressing, and the number ping Federation did not even appair of the entire ordinary expon- which in all probability would 60 diture of the Empire, whereas Germany devotos to her army 28 from this country to Australia during the current your would be about

An Interesting Comparison. Moreover, adds this writer:

The

on the scene in, London until the

strike was virtualty over. The wa

purpose of the Labour leaders

were to form a sort of confederation. and obtain power to paralyse the

por cont of her ordinary expon- diture, and France and iussia 18 10,000, or four times sa many ne por cont. The United States many as three years ago. devotos to the same purpose 15, Australian Commonwealth had not, business of the country, unless their per cont. of her total ordinary however, made up its mind to pay demands were immediately comphed expenditure, and England 16.9 per cant, both of which are

very liberally for the accommoda-with-an attitude depending upon smaller than

tion required, The rate for assist intimidation on one side and waz the percentage

on the other, He did not kö? obtaining in Japan. If we tako passengers was dig, of which the naval expenditure into

shipowner received £11 88. net, and

whether combinations of that kind same within the law of conspiracy; sideration the above order is would-pazzle the sharulders to olianged as shown in the following snow how the shipowner could. ve but it suob disturbances over sagin by such a receipt in respect of occurred it would be a grave qua Journey of 12,000 miles,

table:

Country.

Japan

England

Germany

Russia

2011-

Per cent. of tatal expondillire.

.27.0

United States ...........32.0

.37.0

-France ................. 20.0

Expenditure.

a

tion for the Government to know now to maintam law and order. (Hour, hear.) The company had a toot of over 100000 tons standing the books at a net sum of between

The expenditure had been £20,000 less than in the provious your, owing to the smaller milego. The general tendency, was" for expenses to rise | 43 und 24 per ton~(hear, heat)--

all the vessels being in the best post

UAB

rapidly. In the last three years .21.0 do navigation expenditure plone "The burden of taxes, too; had risen by £219,000 more which Japan's armament puts on the shoulders of her people is a-half of which was due to "coal; much lighter than that borne by connection with both higher prices other nations. Thus the Army and the speed and size of the newer and Navy of Japon calail a wail steamers. They were likely lu taxation of $1.08 per capita, have higher prices for coal in the whereas this per-capita burdon is coming year. They burned Austr $6.43 in England, $3.07 in the lian, Japanese, Indian, and even United States. $3.13 in Germany, Chinese cost for the sake of cheap- $5.09 in Franco, and $2.03 in Russia.'

neas; but they required 500,000 to us of English-Coal also, for which higher Can Face an Increase. prices would have to be paid. They But the weight or lightness of had some small stocks which stood texation cannot always be judg-at a low figure and some fairly cheap ed merely by considering the per-capita amount of it, and it is contracts, and therefore they would necessary to study Japan's not be altogether at the mercy of the national wealth in comparison advanced and advancing prices. À with her military expenditure.great compliment, had been paid to On this point the writer in the company by the selection of the forms us: "It is true that the

$.B. " Medina " to convey their per-capita amount of wealth in Majcaties to ladia-a compliment to our country is much smaller than which the company was fairly entiti. that in other countries, as shown in this table:

od. No ship had over left theno

sible order and of the highest quality. When he first addrømı-

the

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Hongkong, Nov. 16, 1911,

shareholders of the company, AN AUTUMN WEEK-END FOR SINGAPORE, PENANG G. FALCONER ̈ @ Co., Ltd,,

Lueir overland trade had bien en-

In Irkutsk.

AND CALCUTTA, (Taking Cargo on Through Bills of Lading to Rangoon, Malms, and Mauritius.)

THE Steamship

“ARRATOON APUAR,”·

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nihilated by the opening of the Busz Jani. They had 120,000 2018 el ships all unfit for the Suez Canal And Some Random Pen Pictures trade, and standing in the books st £3,000,000, for they had no ressive

Lifting the window-blind of u the ordinary sense of the work The dividends were reduced until the sleeping compartment, I poor Captain G. F. Budap, will be des

ed out into the ebony night from patched for the above ports on FRI- they became almost invisibic, and the Trans-Siberian express. Some DAY, the 12th instant, at N.03. would have ceased if in the accounts times the darkness hung heavier, proper amounts had been charged and then I knew we were cutting

For Freight or Passage, apply to or depreciation. The company, was through the forest, with its

DAVID BASSOOŇ & UO., LD.

Agenta.

f80 43 a most impecunious cond straight pine trees packed tight as Hongkong, 4th Jan., 1912, tion, unable to obtain any con matches; then, to the straining WE have this day admitted Mr. eyes came a suggestion of black LIONEL MOUNTSTUART siderable advances from banken velvet us we rumbled over thirty WHYTE, as a partuor in the business excent by, promising to make a call miles an hour along the banks of of Garner, Quelch & Co., Hongkong. upon the shareholders within a short the Angara; and now we shot GARNER, QUELCH & CO,, space of time. There were position past a little trembling hole in the

Wine Merchants, from Liverpool and London to the great black curtain of the night, Hongkong, 2nd Jan,, 1912.

· [74 Government to prevent the company and I know that the watchman HONGKONG AND CHINA GAS from running mail steamers throngawas keeping the light burning in

Gọi D. Per-capita shores after so great an amount ol

the Suez Canal; there was, in lost track of steel that links West and his primitivo hut by this lonely amount prepartion. He wished they could

NOTICE. conspiracy to unseat, the board East.. of wealth. express the same gratification re.

$1,400

garding the a... Maloja," which and wreck the company. Now they had been sent out in connection with ad four times as great a tonungo the Durbar; but they had suffered

at that time, with an extremely some disappointment, although a

moderate capital." They performed fair number of passengers travelled an arduous muil contract with intle But when the national wealth by the assel. The demands mais more than half the subsidy, then ob: of the Powers in compared with by the Indian Administration for tained

Country,

England

United States......... 1,525 Germany.......... 700 France............. 1,080 Japan..........more 300

280

My travelling companions slept well, each in his snug coupe. The Russian officer was in his dreams living again the battles of distant Manchuria; the German engineer anored grossly, and the oily-faced Crook was as quiet as most of us Their regular dividende | wished he would be when awake. folimbed down to dress, for dawn was now threatening to creep

per

and from the 1st January, 1912. the price of Gas to the public be REDUCED to $2.60 aubic feet. By Order of the Director,

GEORGE CURRY,

Local Boaretary.

1,000

Hongkong. 7th Nov. 1911,

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the sume which they expend for sccommodation at Delhi had close) were not to be despised, and their fisir respective armaments, the the door in the face of the publ. resources were auch that they never above order is reversed. Thus from this country and America, the borrowed from bankers, but wote up, and, without design, I disturb Russia expends for her Army and proposed charge of the authorities rondy to lend to them. (Laughter.) ed the German. He sat up with Navy, 0073 por cont. of her being, in the first instance, £15 per This very different stato of things a start, felt under the pillow for national wealth, Germany .0055 per cent, France 0047 par cont, day per person, who must guarante justified, and 'applauded the polloy his wallet, and having made sure that. his English banknotes and England 0046 per cent., Japan a stay of at least fortnight. When carried out for many years past, and his passport were salo, glanced at 0036 per cent., and the States the terms were, altered, enthusiasm if they estimated the future by theme, then through the window, 9.15 .002 per cent."

regarding the Durbar had been past, they might feel confident that and finally asked if I knew our Upon the strength of these solutely quenched, and the annouase the company would be as mucessful whareabouts. statistice the editor contends that mont of an autumn session but an in the distant futura na for many "should circumstances develop and to the company's expectation years pest calling for the increase of Japan's that a handsome return would be Army and Navy, the country will made on the voyage. be well able to meet such needs without entailing any pernicious sirot, upon its economie, and financial conditions."

The Strikes.

By the strikes they had fourtesh steamers bald un and sbros steam

The report and accounts wore unanimously adopted, and dividends deglared for the half-year to Sep- tember 30 of 21 per conf. on the pra

bonts of 3 percent, on the de- føixed, stook" and 6) per cent.; with

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